Devel Schema Change Helper

This module provides helper tools, to help with various field changes on the field storage, config, instance and database level.

Hopefully this will one day be solved in core for better DX: #937442: Field type modules cannot maintain their field schema (field type schema change C(R)UD is needed)
Until that, this module offers its help for developers :)

Motivation

Currently in Drupal, there is no proper way, to modify existing fields on field storage / database level. For example, if you want to modify the (machine) name of a given field or update the storage definition in some other way. Data needs to be changed on field storage, field config, field instance and database level.

This developer module tries to do the heavy lifting for your field conversion, so you only have to make some minor adjustments

Known Problems

General

• The module currently does NOT support migrating "entity_reference" fields.

Rename command specific

• Field conversion currently moves the English translation to the original field config (even if English is not set as the original field language) and deletes any existing translations. This might be a core bug.
• "third_party_settings" and other field config keys might still relate to old field_names

Features

• Rename field to given field name ✅
• Update field to latest field definition ❌
• Remove field schema column ❌
• Add field schema column ❌

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